Re: [Deskbar] The future of Deskbar

[Sebastian Pölsterl <marduk k-d-w org>]

Stuart Langridge wrote:
>> > Stuart has a point here.
>> > I think our default behavior should be to enable new handlers found
>> > under ~/.gnome2/deskbar-applet (because if they are there it means the
>> > use just put them there, and tha means he want to try them, i guess)
>> >
>> But what if some evil program puts a file there and it gets executed
>> automatically. We should at least ask the other what to do and not just
>> load  the new handler without any notification.
>
> Any evil program that can write to that folder could just do the evil
> thing itself if it wanted to. That doesn't really buy anything, I
> don't think. As Raf noted, Ubuntu take a similar approach with
> daemons; if you installed it then the assumption is that you want it
> to run, and a program that can imitate you to the extent that it can
> write to your handlers folder can do anything that you can do already.
>
You're absolutly right. Therefore, you convinced me.

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Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl